Lost in Translation II

Where:Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00

When:February 15, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00

The Czech Literary Translators’ Guild and the Václav Havel Library invite publishers and translators to a round-table discussion on how publishers select foreign literature for translation, how they select translators to work on them and how cooperation between translators and editors works.

Speakers: Jindřich Jůzl of publishers Odeon, Anna Rezková Horáčková of Paseka and Petr Januš of Rubato. Translators will be represented by German Studies expert Tereza Semotamová.

Chaired by Hispanic Studies expert Blanka Stárková.

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Power of the Powerless – samizdat essay

„Technology – that child of modern science, which in turn is a child of modern metaphysics – is out of humanity’s control, has ceased to serve us, has enslaved us and compelled us to participate in the preparation of our own destruction. And humanity can find no way out: we have no idea and no faith, and even less do we have a political conception to help us bring things back under human control. We look on helplessly as that coldly functioning machine we have created inevitably engulfs us, tearing us away from our natural affiliations (for instance, from our habitat in the widest sense of that word, including our habitat in the biosphere) just as it removes us from the experience of Being and casts us into the world of “existences”.“